{"podcast":{"title":"Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals","slug":"lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653","podcast_index_feed_id":7851653,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2616179.rss","website_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/v1152h5un11qdzxts4md3km6c05t?.jpg","author":"Dark Stories","episode_count":19,"summary":"Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals is a true crime podcast unlike any other; because every word of it was written nearly 300 years ago. Each week, we read aloud one chapter from a remarkable book first published in London in 1735: a sprawling collection of murderers, highwaymen, coiners, housebreakers, pirates and worse, recorded in vivid and unsparing detail. The crimes are real. The voices are authentic. And the world they reveal, brutal, strange, and surprisingly familiar, has been waiting three centuries to be heard again. True crime did not begin with podcasts. It began here by the burning light of a candle.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-15T02:17:49.215118+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 013: Richard James: The Highwayman of the Oxford Road","slug":"episode-013-richard-james-the-highwayman-of-the-oxford-road","published_at":"2026-08-10T12:02:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episode-013-richard-james-the-highwayman-of-the-oxford-road","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19616789-episode-013-richard-james-the-highwayman-of-the-oxford-road.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19616789-episode-013-richard-james-the-highwayman-of-the-oxford-road.mp3","summary":"Send us your Feedback Richard James comes into the world already half abandoned: the son of a nobleman's cook, fatherless before he can remember, cast to sea at twelve years old. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals recounts his story, what emerges is a man shaped less by malice than by a relentless current of misfortune; a figure whose slide toward highway robbery feels almost inevitable, and who belongs to the long, dark tradition of true crime that stretches from Georgian England to o...","meta_description":"Send us your Feedback Richard James comes into the world already half abandoned: the son of a nobleman's cook, fatherless before he can remember, cast to…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":312,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episodes/episode-013-richard-james-the-highwayman-of-the-oxford-road/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episode-013-richard-james-the-highwayman-of-the-oxford-road.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}